Research Links

This page is a repository of important links for a wide range of topics that come up in Mike’s interviews. If you don’t find something you’re looking for here, email Mike and let him know (put something in the subject line about the links page). Some of the topics show up in Mike’s novels: The Facade and its sequel, The Portent. You can search Mike’s blogs by using the search field at the top of his website for any of them.

The best thing in general is the 3-hour documentary debunking the claims of the History Channel’s series Ancient Aliens. Mike appears in the documentary. It’s free on YouTube. The companion website includes transcripts of the film and source material for its refutation of ancient astronaut claims.

Mike covers Zecharia Sitchin’s claims in the documentary. Readers can get the data Mike talks about at these links to check Sitchin’s claims for themselves:

The word elohim: Sitchin’s errors and the raw data of the biblical text

Mike posts PDF files of computer search results in the Hebrew Bible that demonstrate that elohim often refers to a “god” or “God” (proper name and singular). Besides this evidence from the Hebrew Bible, he has also posted examples from ancient Mesopotamian texts (Akkadian) from the famous El-Amarna texts where the plural word for “gods” (‘ilanu) refers to a single person or god – just as in the case of Hebrew elohim.

But isn’t elohim in Genesis 1:26 referring to plural creators? Doesn’t that verse show we were made by aliens? No — at least if you care about Hebrew grammar. The verbs of creation are all grammatically singular, and the image is also described with singular pronouns (“his”) once the creation happens. Here’s what it means (and by the way, even in the Babylonian Epic of creation the Anunnaki aren’t humanity’s creators — they’re just watching).

The link above includes a video of Mike searching the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (free, online) for these terms. Watch and mimic the search for yourself. You’ll find out that NONE of the ET ideas Sitchin claims about the Anunnaki are in the actual tablets. It’s not about disagreeing about translation — it’s that his ideas don’t exist in the tablets.

Nibiru – it’s not a planet beyond Pluto according to Sumerian astronomical tablets

Baalbek is usually thought to be humanly impossible. But as the article at this link shows, heavier objects have been moved in early modern times without the use of hydraulics and cranes. The article at the link also shows, from classical Greco-Roman sources, how such objects could be moved by principles of applied physics.

Mike’s religion / theology doesn’t preclude an ET reality. He thinks it would cool to discover that intelligent extraterrestrial life was out there (providing it isn’t hostile). He’s lectured on whether conservative Christianity and Judaism could sustain an ET reality. One of those lectures can be viewed here (it’s an old version, but you’ll get the point):

Mike thinks the Majestic Documents are bogus — with respect to their alien claims and production. He had the ones with author names tested by a computational linguist for authenticity. That didn’t go well for the documents. Mike gave a lecture at a UFO conference in Roswell on the document testing. You can watch that here:

The Majestic documents have few friends among ufologists. Here’s an excellent video presentation by ufologist Alejandro Rojas of openminds.tv entitled “Majestic 12: A UFO Disinformation Scandal”:

The documents Alejandro shows and discusses in the above video can be obtained here.
There are other ufologists who think these documents are bogus. Here are some links to a recent online debate about them:

Nazi nuclear capability (the documented chemical method that does not require a reactor)

Zinsser testimony taken by intelligence personnel on August 19, 1945. It is preserved in microfilm, roll number A1007, and microfilmed in 1973 at Maxwell Air Force base in Alabama. The title of the military intelligence report is: “Investigations, Research, Development and Practical Use of German Atomic Bomb,” A.P.I.U. (Ninth Air Force) 96/145 APO 696, U.S. Army, August 1945. (report is classified Secret). A summary of that report can be read here.

Witkowski used sources made available after the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as the National Archives) documenting German saucer development.

The NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) catalog sheet notes that Germans were working on a flying saucer. The document to which the catalogue sheet refers in the NARA file was missing from the NARA file. Witkowski, who discovered this file, believes it had been pulled since there was a note within the file to that effect. See p. 287 of Witkowski’s book. There is a scan of the catalogue sheet on p. 284. The file designation at NARA is: NARA/RG-319 “Index to the ID File,” Box 117.

The de-classified documents from the NARA file on Prof. Ronald Richter (inventor of the chemical process that produces nuclear capability) that mention “experimental approach to the unified field theory and the velocity of propagation of gravity” and “nuclear propulsion systems under hypersonic flight conditions” are reproduced in Witkowski, p. 302.